264 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents
What use were girls anyway?: class and the importance of gender -- That won't earn a gal a living: education for girls -- Thinking of England: sex, courtship and marriage -- Angels in the house: marriage and domestic life -- Time of their own: women's interests and entertainments -- Punch and Judy: holy deadlock, separation and divorce -- Turning their industry to best account: widowhood and old age -- Making their own way: the lives of unmarried middle-class women -- Cheap labour: the lives of unmarried working-class women -- Olbiged to be breadwinners: the lives of married women workers -- Ladies bountiful: philanthropic, voluntary and political work -- A separate species of womanhood: the demi-monde -- Conclusion: to become themselves
